Dream Job

[Bedford Roughyed]

Inspired by a post on the maps thread.

What job* would you have wanted, if you could reset time?  Maybe a Job you didn't know existed?  A job you didn't do the right exams for?  A job life now wouldn't allow?

Mine would have probably been the British Antarctic Survey, had no real awareness of what they did, by the time I knew I wouldn't have passed the medical!

*astronaut, fighter pilot, etc are a given.

[Spidey]

I’d definitely would have gone into sports analysis- the analysis I do on a daily basis is dull - would much rather transfer that skill set to something a bit more interesting 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

An archaeologist. 

[JohnM]

A dresser at the Moulin Rouge in Paris.

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£100 an hour

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.but that's all I can afford to pay them.

On a more frivolous note, I'd like to run a big band Basie-style.

Edited July 30, 2024 by JohnM

[gazza77]

Something to do with construction or maintenance. A Quantity Surveyor perhaps, or some sort of engineer.

[Eddie]

Cartographer, of the things I could realistically have done and been good at, or a historian. 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

40 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Cartographer, of the things I could realistically have done and been good at, or a historian. 

What area of history would you specialise in?

[Eddie]

8 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

What area of history would you specialise in?

The Anglo Saxon period - between the end of the Roman occupation and the Norman invasion. 
 

How about you, with your archaeology? 

Edited July 30, 2024 by Eddie

[The Hallucinating Goose]

39 minutes ago, Eddie said:

The Anglo Saxon period - between the end of the Roman occupation and the Norman invasion. 
 

How about you, with your archaeology? 

The Middle Ages, particularly the Plantagenet period. More specifically the lives of the everyday man, so digging lost villages and farms, that sort of thing as opposed to digging military and royal sites.

[Padge]

4 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

An archaeologist. 

This ^

[CanaBull]

Archaeology for me too, European Bronze and Iron Ages or ancient near Eastern.

[Eddie]

There’s almost enough people for a TRL archaeology sub-forum! 

[Tommygilf]

I always wanted to be Indiana Jones

[HawkMan]

I wish I was the guy at IMG with the job of " re- imagining RL" and turning it into a mega sport. However some lucky s*d already has that.

As a kid I actually wanted to be a bus driver, never happened,  failed my driving test numerous times and gave up.

[JonM]

I have three friends who work as archaeologists. They've all worked on interesting things at different points in their careers, but it's poorly paid, lots of paperwork, plenty of politics and plenty of routine day to day stuff. Not so different to many other jobs I suppose. I reckon there's a lot to be said to having a 'proper' job and being a volunteer on archaeological digs in your free time.

Also know a couple of people who worked for the British Antarctic survey, as they're based in Cambridge (and I used to know a woman who worked as an engineer on one of the US antarctic bases). They've all been really positive about the experience, although it's supposedly a bit like living on a submarine for 6 months.

If you'd asked 12 year old (or 18 year old) me what I wanted to do, it's pretty much what I ended up doing, and I'd probably make the same choice if I had my time again. Astronomer, Botanist or maybe something biotech related or perhaps spacecraft engineering would all be pretty interesting though.

[17 stone giant]

A lighthouse keeper, although I'd probably be bored of it after a few days. I think my view of how good it would be and what it would actually involve, doesn't really fit with reality.

I kind of imagine doing it with a few friends living there, internet access, sitting around having a drink/smoke, a takeaway, a game of darts and pool/snooker, listening to music and watching the sea, while the light does its own thing upstairs and no maintenance is ever required.

Growing up and always living near the sea, I just think they look cool. I always used to build lighthouses when playing Minecraft.

Maybe a train driver, but in the days of steam. That would probably be quite lonely too though.

[graveyard johnny]

glamour photographer for top shelf magazines

Edited July 31, 2024 by graveyard johnny

[tonyXIII]

Having heard today what he was being paid, I'd've liked Huw Edwards job, but without the extra-curricular photographic interests. I mean, the best part of half-a-mil a year! I can read aloud, gissa job!

[graveyard johnny]

9 hours ago, Eddie said:

There’s almost enough people for a TRL archaeology sub-forum! 

am sure my wife is an archaeologist - she's always having a dig and raking the past up

[HawkMan]

46 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

glamour photographer for top shelf magazines

You'll have to settle for  photographer of top shelf magazines, providing the newsagent doesn't mind.

Edited July 31, 2024 by HawkMan

[glossop saint]

I played the trumpet as a kid. I would have loved to have been a backing musician for some of the great bands. Unfortunately I wasn't very good.

[Yorks Tim]

Marine biologist or something similar that involved plenty of swimming in the sea.

 

[Maximus Decimus]

My undergraduate degree is in Ancient History and Archaeology, and it wasn't something I ever considered as a career. The idea of digging up amazing interesting things is sadly rarely the case. I enjoyed my couple of weeks actually doing some archaeology (I dug up an 800 year old goat skeleton), but I think it would get boring pretty quickly.

Likewise with history, I have friends who have gone further and in my experience you end up specialising in a niche area that nobody cares about. No lie, one of my tutors was an expert in loom stones.

The essential problem I've always had is that I didn't know what I wanted to do even as a dream job. I was a singer until about 20, but didn't even really want to be famous. I like the idea of something in music without the nerves/stress of performance.

Also sport. I'd love a job where I would be in shape just by doing the job. 

[wilsontown]

I'm a geologist, so I think I win.

[Bedford Roughyed]

11 hours ago, JonM said:

but it's poorly paid, lots of paperwork,

I should have said 'ignoring rubbish pay'.  The BAS don't pay well, but you get 6 months tax free with free food and lodgings i suppose!